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Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?



Le Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> 
> This would violate the Debian Policy section 12.1, reading "[..] Each
> program, utility, and function should have an associated manual page
> included in the same package. [..]".

Hi Daniel,

Since it is not a MUST, but just a SHOULD, would it mean that it would
be acceptable to ship the manpages with the doc anyway ? If emboss
Recommends: emboss-doc, aptitude will install them together by default.
EMBOSS is a big suite which deals with biological sequences databases,
which typically will take at lot of disk space. I think that there would
be no inconvenience for the user to install emboss-doc.

On the other hand, I can also try to summarise the problem, and submit a
bug to the Policy.

What is your opinion ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan



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